Sedir Island, one of the most important stopover points of the Blue Voyage in the Gulf of Gökova, attracts the attention of local and foreign tourists. The road, which turns left at the 12th km of the Marmaris-Muğla road, will take you to another point of the Gökova Gulf, Çamlı Pier, after 6 km. Boats departing from Çamlı Pier as they fill are going to Sedir Island. Sedir Island tours, which started after the 15th of May, continue until October. Sedir Island, which is visited by approximately 100 thousand tourists a year, attracts the attention of local and foreign tourists due to its archaeological and natural sites. Sedir Island is known for the ancient city of Cedrae (Kedrai) and the famous Cleopatra Beach. It is believed that Cleopatra and Antonius Caesar had a great love on this island. According to the legend, King Antonius of Egypt, who wanted to give the gift of this enthusiasm to Cleopatra, who agreed to marry him, brought Cleopatra to the island where he will take Cleopatra to spend his honeymoon about 3000 years ago, with 60 large ships from Egypt with sands smaller than 1 millimeter in diameter and each of the same size. brought it. Other features of this special sand, which is known to exist only in two parts of the world, are that it burns in the fire, reproduces spontaneously in soda water and moves when examined under a magnifying glass. The unique beauty color added to the sea by the sands formed by the accumulation of carbonated mud around a core is one of the other features of the island worth seeing. It is known that a similar kind of sand is in the Red Sea.

Remains of the Temple of Apollo, Theater and Necropolis have survived from the ancient city. Kedrai means cedars.
Although the existence of the durable tree cedar, which is used especially for laying ship keels, is unknown on the island, this is its meaning in ancient Greek. Kedrai, one of the most important settlements on the Crossing of Rhodes, was surrounded by walls. In the central part of the city, whose tower and walls can be viewed on the shore, is the Apollo temple in Doric order. In the eastern part of the island, there is a north facing theater in very good condition. If we do not count the big urbanization such as Knidos, in Marmaris-Bozburun region, which is known as the Rhodesian Karşıyaka, only three of the Antiquity settlements have theaters. During the Peloponnesian Wars between Athens and Isparta, the city came to the city in BC. In 405, the Isparta general Lysander, who attacked because of his support of Athens, captured the island and enslaved its people. While the historian Xenophon reports this event in detail, he also says that the people of the island are half barbarians.
The sands on the northern coast of the island are specially formed limestone droplets and can only be seen on the island of Crete except for Cedar in the Aegean and the Mediterranean.

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